1. Poetry
Types and terms

2. Types of poetry We will study 10 types of poetry: Sonnet Limerick
Lyric
Ballad
Ode
Elegy
Limerick
Haiku
Free Verse
Blank Verse
Pastoral/Romantic

3. Sonnets Sonnets originated in England and Italy They are rhymed
Once by the Pacific (Robert Frost)
The shattered water made a misty din.  Great waves looked over others coming in,  And thought of doing something to the shore  That water never did to land before.  The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,  Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.  You could not tell, and yet it looked as if  The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,  The cliff in being backed by continent;  It looked as if a night of dark intent  Was coming, and not only a night, an age.  Someone had better be prepared for rage.  There would be more than ocean-water broken  Before God's last Put out the light was spoken.
Sonnets originated in England and Italy
They are rhymed
14 (English) lines or
16 (Italian) lines.
Iambic pentameter (5 beats – 10 syllables)

4. Blank Verse Unrhymed iambic pentameter
The Seven Ages of Man (W. Shakespeare)

5. Lyric Lyric poetry tells the authors internal thoughts
Does not tell a story!
Does not have to rhyme!
Fire and Ice (Robert Frost)
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

6. Ballad Ballads are narrative (story) poems that are usually sung
The Ballad of Birmingham (D. Randall)
“Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?”
“No, baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren’t good for a little child.”
“But, mother, I won’t be alone.
Other children will go with me,
To make our country free.”
For I fear those guns will fire.
But you may go to church instead
And sing in the children’s choir.”
She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet,
And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,
And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know her child
Was in the sacred place,
But that smile was the last smile
To come upon her face.
For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
“O, here’s the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you?”
Ballads are narrative (story) poems that are usually sung
They do not have to rhyme!

7. Ode Odes are poems that are dedicated to a particular person or thing
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats)

8. Limerick A limerick is a humorous poem Must be five lines Rhyme: AABBA
Unknown
There was an old man with a beard
Who said, "it’s just how I feared!  Two owls and a hen  Four larks and a wren  Have all built their nests in my beard.

9. Elegy Because I could not stop for Death (E. Dickinson)
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,  And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility.
We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.
Or rather, he passed us; The dews grew quivering and chill, For only gossamer my gown, My tippet only tulle.
We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound.
Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.
A poem written as a lament for the dead or about death
Sometimes read at funerals and wakes

10. Haiku Japanese 17 syllables Miura Chora Get out of my road
5 in first line
7 in second
5 in last line
Focus on nature
Miura Chora
Get out of my road
and allow me to plant these
bamboos. Mr. Toad.

11. Pastoral/Romantic I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Wordsworth)
Focus is on nature and the power of nature
Often contain references to rivers, streams, sky etc.

12. Free Verse No consistent rhyme or meter – free! A Blessing (J. Wright)